The phrase "ability to examine a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to analyze or investigate something.
Example: "The researcher demonstrated a remarkable ability to examine a wide range of data sets for patterns."
Alternatives: "capacity to analyze a" or "skill to investigate a".
It's a presumption that disrespectfully disregards the full scope of my intelligence — and my ability to examine a world that exists beyond the borders of my own selfhood.
In a 2014 speech, Harvard University President Drew Faust told a group of Texas high school students "the ability to examine a piece of information skeptically, before deciding whether to accept it or not, is a vital skill in the workplace, and a vital skill in life.
We were taught that the ability to examine a child's abdomen was the hallmark of the good diagnostician, but we were reassured that even the best diagnosticians sometimes took a child to surgery for stomach cramps or gastroenteritis -- a "negative appendectomy".
But brick-and-mortar shops still have big appeal for consumers because they offer instant gratification and the ability to examine a product in person before buying it.
These results suggest that the reason why we are able to achieve high assay quality is largely due to the ability to examine a narrow range of AR expression that is essentially free from potential over-expression artifacts.
The ability to examine a large number of samples in a relatively small period of time with extensive analytical replication provides a distinct advantage over other methods for protein and peptide analysis.
The reflective sphere dealt with a person's ability to examine an event from multiple perspectives — to step outside oneself and understand another point of view.
We exploited this tool's ability to examine an entire protein sequence family and generate, for each site, a normalized replacement rate based on the posterior mean probabilities of the site's extant and historical amino acid patterns residing in the individual categories of the gamma distribution.
13 The advantage lies in the ability to examine systematically a much wider literature so to suggest recommendations for practice.
The ability to examine FFPEspecimens, a universally standard histologic processing procedure, allows the expeditious discovery and evaluation of potential biomarkers, given their possible link to clinical databases with mature follow-up.
This limitation also precluded our ability to examine more directly a potential interaction between lead in drinking water and water fluoridation method that would be expected if the hypothesized enhancement of lead uptake were correct.
